Supplements

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I can acquire these supplements from any normal pharmacy right?

1 Super B complex.
1 Multi Vitamin & Minerals.
1 60 mg Zinc.
2 500mg L-Arginine capsule.
1 500 mg L-Lysine.

[AKL0022 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AKL0022]

Blackraptor: Yes, you can get all of these vitamins from just about any health food or vitamin store. However, I highly recommend you NOT to take 60mg of Zinc. According to the article, “A Little Zinc is good for you, but a lot is not,” it is easy to get too much zinc in our diet, especially if we take certain dietary supplements. For example, many of the mineral supplements sold in the marketplace today contain 50 to 100 mg of zinc per tablet. This is 3 to 8 times the recommend intake.


A study at the Nutrition Center conducted by Drs. David Milne and Cindy Davis, showed that women volunteers fed 53 mg of zinc per day in an otherwise normal diet with 1 mg of copper, or about the average copper intake of most women, began to develop some signs of low copper status after about 90 days.


Zinc also can affect the status of other trace elements. In the same study described above, 53 mg of zinc in the diet for 90 days lowered both the hemoglobin concentration and the ability of the blood to bind iron. This suggests that women who consume high zinc for a long period could develop deficiencies of both copper and iron.


As a results of these studies we advise against taking vitamin and mineral supplements that contain a lot of zinc. However, If you prefer to take a vitamin/mineral supplement once a day, it should contain no more than 12 to 15 mg of zinc or 100% of the RDA for women and men, respectively. Without resorting to supplements, a well balanced diet composed of a variety of foods will supply you with your needed zinc without it becoming too much. Rich sources of zinc are red meat, nuts and seeds such as sunflower kernels, whole grains, and shell fish such as oysters.


To read the full article here is the link: Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center : A little Zinc is good for you, but a lot is not!


Hope this helps,


AKL0022

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Thanks that does help alot.

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Would you suggest taking the zinc suppliments once a week?